Abstract Background In the Neolithic, domestic sheep migrated into Europe and
subsequently spread in westerly and northwesterly directions. Reconstruction of these …

Sheep are a main livestock species of Kyrgyzstan, a Central Asian country with
predominating mountain terrain. The current gene pool of local sheep resources has been …

Large-scale evaluations of genetic diversity in domestic livestock populations are necessary
so that region-specific conservation measures can be implemented. We performed the first …

Background Russia has a diverse variety of native and locally developed sheep breeds with
coarse, fine, and semi-fine wool, which inhabit different climate zones and landscapes that …

The diversity, population structure and genetic relationships of Tsigai and Zackel type of
sheep breeds from the Central-, Eastern-and Southern-European regions were investigated …

In recent years, extensive archaeological studies have provided us with new knowledge on
wool and woollen textile production in continental Europe during the Bronze Age …

Highly adaptable and versatile populations of domestic sheep, the result of millennia of
intense husbandry, are found in almost every corner of the world. Here we describe a …

The classification of sheep breeds based on morphological traits alone is not always in
agreement with historical and/or genetic data. In the present work, the genetic variability and …

I taly counts several sheep breeds, arisen over centuries as a consequence of ancient and
recent genetic and demographic events. To finely reconstruct genetic structure and …

Background The current large spectrum of sheep phenotypic diversity results from the
combined product of sheep selection for different production traits such as wool, milk and …